Thinking about alternatives to React/Next.js—Solid.js & Qwik catching my interest

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Been thinking a lot lately about where front-end is headed post-Next.js/Tailwind world — especially around performance. Heard a lot about Solid.js and Qwik recently — frameworks built with minimal JS and ultra-fast rendering in mind.

From what I’m reading, the idea is to ship way less JavaScript to users and get better load times without sacrificing reactivity. Unlike traditional hydration models, these tools do more clever stuff with partial hydration or fine-grained reactivity, meaning faster interactivity right out of the gate.

Not saying Next.js is dead — I still love it — but it feels like the web is slowly shifting to frameworks that think harder about what actually reaches the browser. Curious if anyone has played with Solid or Qwik in real apps?

Questions I want to ask the community:
• Have you tried Solid.js or Qwik yet?
• How was the learning curve + tooling?
• Any real-world performance wins you saw?

Would be cool to hear experiences from people who’ve gone beyond the usual React/Tailwind setup recently.

Tags:
#frontend #webdev #SolidJS #Qwik #performance